Hi everyone, I was asked to do a tutorial on Hair,
So here it is, its 1hr long, a lot of information. I hope it will be useful to a few 
To watch it in HD mode, simply go to vimeo with the link in the video when clicking on HD
The .blends can be downloaded on blendswap 
Happy Blending
Wow, man, you are awesome, thanks for this great tutorial, i have been looking for one like this a long time ago
andrefe91: thank you I will probably do a follow up tutorial about hair dynamics for animations as well as pony tails, dreads, etcâŚ
Hopefully those will also be helpful
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Thank you so much for this tutorial, i learned lots of tricks i had no idea existed.
It now all makes so much more sense to me and my â2 left handsâ when it comes to combing 
I tried to apply some on one of my old head models, the result is far from perfect, but in comparison to the horror from beyond all my previous attempts looked like, thatâs a huge improvement thanks to your tutorial
Sanctuary: This looks pretty good perhaps adding a bit more length randomisation and a bit more color randomisation on your cloud noize (making it smaller). If you want the hair to look more smooth simply increase the b-spline steps in the particle panel under render keep in mind however that the higher that value is, the longer it will render. The default of 3 is perfect for short hair, but when it gets long, increase it slightly to 4 or 5, and with really long hair, go to 6 or 7, max is 9 and I wouldnât use it for anything exept maybe something like Reponzel in Tangled Keep practicing, look at some references, try to reproduce them, have fun with it above all
Happy Blending
Experimenting around those values, thanks.
But what is that âcolor randomisation on your cloud noiseâ youâre refering to ?
In this quick test i just used simple monocolored materials ?
edit : oh i think i see what you meant, though i didnât used any procedural texture (and so no cloud noise) because i didnât knew it was possible on hair particles, great another thing learned today
So i did have some fun with the settings you suggested :
changed a bit too much some of them as it changed completely the âsmoothâ of the hair into something more heavy fur-like, will have some fun experimenting around, thanks
Sanctuary, perhaps a little too red for my taste. You need to play a bit with your lighting and also make sure your skin shader on your mesh has receive transparent in the shadow section. Its also way too curly for my tastes, but I can see you are having fun and that is just plain awesome
Happy Blending
Great tutorial
I learned a lot from it
You said in your tutorial there isnât a easier way to select the vertices. Try going into face select mode, press C, and then highlight the faces for your vertex groups before you switch back to vertice mode.
XeroShadow, thanks for the tip I will give that a try right away
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totally awesome tutorial
learnt alot
thx
Quite a practical tutorial, you tell in great destails. Just watch a few minutes of it, glad to save it for later use.
AA3D: Thank you and welcome
Harry: Glad I donât sound too boring 
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Great! This tutorial is just what the doctor ordered
Thank you for such a great tutorial. Full of information and well paced. Also, just in time to help me with my next school project. Woohoo!
thankyou for sharing!
Thanks for the tutorial! Did you ever get around to figuring out long hair animation? Iâm having a devil of a time with it.
-Scott
Only problem I am having is that I cannot seem to find any of these options in Blender?
Can you elaborate how to get to where you make hair? I have 2.7 installed and many options donât seem to be available.
What options ? Show us what you see and indicate what you donât
Did you try opening the blend file ?
For the materials are you using the default render engine that comes with blender (as in the video) or have you changed it (top of the blender interface) to something else such as Cycles ?